emblaegh

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by emblaegh 7y ago
What he is describing is the opposite of prosperity theology.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
Even as an atheist myself, I can tell how ridiculously uninformed this view of Christianity (and probably most other religions) is.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
All politics is emotion driven.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
Never been to the US, but I never had the impression that Americans had more problems with alcohol than, say, Europe (if anything the stereotype goes the opposite way). A quick google search seems to point that Americans die more of alcohol
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by emblaegh 7y ago
If the government is not comitted to the preservation of the Amazon, then there's really nothing that can be done. One could consider imposing international sanctions, but the chance of that backfiring would be quite high IMHO.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
I can be proven wrong, but I don't think it's poor farmers who are responsible for the deforestation of the Amazon. It's mostly big latifund owners with lots of lobbying power.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
> Where exactly is the strawman? > Parent made argument that zoning is the whole problem Did I though? Or that did I made the argument that some of the zoning regulations contribute to the problem of housing markets being ineffici
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by emblaegh 7y ago
> And as we see in Hong Kong, simply adding housing units doesn't necessarily reduce the price of housing. Do you have more info on that? I'd be particularly curious if the per capta price of housing increased with population a
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by emblaegh 7y ago
Nice strawman bud.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
Housing is not a free market because its supply is artificially restricted by zoning regulations meant to protect the value of current homeowners' properties.
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by emblaegh 7y ago
gotta appreciate the capacity of the author to write the post in such a way as to make me hate him more than the thief
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Dunno about you, but I'd prefer to have one top spec box than two mid spec ones (assuming you're working on a fixed budget here).
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Bokeh interactive tools are much nicer than matplotlib and its children. Also it has a js backend so you can more easily integrate into a website.
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Is that legal though?
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by emblaegh 8y ago
> data or [] Unfortunately this kind of conditional assignment does not work if `data` is a numpy array. This arguably more numpy's fault than python's, though it is a mildly infuriating when it happens.
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Can you imagine being so delusional you think vim is a dumbed down "casual" programming tool?
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by emblaegh 8y ago
I don't think he's contradicting himself. His scholar opinion is about the form of Plato's work (i.e. the order it should be read), and not about its content . I think he recomended people to avoid the second, as following
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Any one knows a good (preferably free online) source for learning shorthand? I was recently interested in learning it, but was shocked by how little decent online material there is about it.
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by emblaegh 8y ago
If they had inexperienced developers, that's most likely because they're cheaper, not because they have an amazing narrative behind their backs.
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by emblaegh 8y ago
Voronoi diagrams work for any definition of `distance` that may suit your needs. So weighting by airport size and/or sea distance is pretty trivial.
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by emblaegh 9y ago
I thought the same, but the portuguese version of the text offer a different view: > hello is the first social network build on profound friendships instead of 'likes'. So maybe it is a social network whose focus is people yo
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by emblaegh 9y ago
You know how much a banana is worth because you've seen how much people charge for bananas from different origins in different grocery stores. Knowing how much your peers are getting paid is important information when evaluate an offer
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by emblaegh 9y ago
Aren't you refererring to "All of non-parametric statistics"? https://www.amazon.com/All-Nonparametric-Statistics-Springer... Either way I can't recommend these books enough, really opened my eyes to the
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by emblaegh 9y ago
You can access the other languages column using the icon below the title of the article at the top.